Brief Life History of Irene Hope
When Irene Hope Sisson was born on 23 February 1896, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Charles Dean Sisson, was 36 and her mother, Abbie Sophia Peckham, was 33. She married Carlton Percival Simmons on 12 December 1919, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and United States in 1949. She died on 1 September 1988, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Irene H Simmons, "United States 1950 Census"
- Irene H Sisson, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Irene H Sisson, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1907 · Larchmont sinks
On February 11, 1907, a passenger ship gets rammed by a coal carrier just southwest of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. It takes only 10 minutes for the Larchmont to sink. Only 19 of those on board survive. The next day bodies of those that had been on the ship continue to wash up onto the shore.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English:
from the Middle English female personal name Sis(se), Cisse, a pet form of Cecily (see Sisley ) + -son.
variant of Syson, a habitational name from Syston (Leicestershire), from a short form of an Old English personal name such as Sigehǣth or Sigefrith + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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